A London Year: 365 Days of City Life in Diaries, Journals and Letters
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A London Year is an anthology of short diary entries, one or more for each day of the year, which, taken together, provides an impressionistic portrait of life in the city from Tudor times to the twenty-first century. There are more than two hundred featured writers, with a short biography for each. The most famous diarist of all - Samuel Pepys - is there, as well as some of today'e(tm)s finest diarists like Alan Bennett and Chris Mullin. There are coronations and executions, election riots and zeppelin raids, duels, dust-ups and drunken sprees, among everyday moments like Brian Eno cycling in Kilburn or George Eliot walking on Wimbledon Common. Vividly evoking moments in the lives of Londoners in the past, providing snapshots of the city'e(tm)s inhabitants at work, at play, in pursuit of money, sex, entertainment, pleasure and power, A London Year is the perfect book for all who live in or love this eternal, ever-changing city.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0711234493
ISBN13:9780711234499
Release Date:December 2013
Publisher:Frances Lincoln
Length:607 Pages
Weight:3.40 lbs.
Dimensions:2.2" x 6.6" x 9.5"
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